Today, I held the second of two open houses on a commercial lease space.  In my broker's marketing plan to attract tenants, he put in holding open an office lease space of about 3,638sf, a rather large vacant space.  In our marketing plan we proposed to open the vacant space to the public from Noon until 2:00, a time period designed to catch people coming to and from lunch.  We marketed the open house to our own e-mail lists of commercial agents and by word of mouth.  We will open the space each week on a Wednesday and will have lunch snacks and drinks to offer customers.  Our main brokerage sign has a permanently attached open house rider with the time stated.  Today I had one customer come by, the next door tenant, and he was glad to see the inside of the space and is now considering demising about 1,300sf of the 3,638sf for his own expanding plan, a plan that the owner was familiar with but didn't have anyone to push the deal through.  We enter here representing the landlord and we have begun the negotiaing process to lease this space.  Maybe holding an "open house" or holding an "open office" is a good way to attract tenants and prospects for our busniess.